Peter Pan, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?, sentence 65
The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.
Who acts: medicine, Peter · What happens: catch, stand, sight, medicine · To what, where: red, ledge, medicine
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIII. DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (medicine, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 red | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 eye | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eye | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 red | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 medicine | case |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Peter | case |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 medicine | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ledge | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ledge | det |
| 16 | ledge | ledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reach | amod |
| 19 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 standing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | the red | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sight=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | Peter's medicine not said here | a ledge | within easy reach | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ledge=Location | |||
| 3 | sight | Peter's medicine | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | medicine | Peter | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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